01120nam a22001457a 4500 515467 515467 210129b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Ofosu, George K. and Posner, Daniel N. 23964 Do pre-analysis plans hamper publication? AEA Papers and Proceedings 110, May, 2020: p.70-74 Scholars assert that pre-analysis plans (PAPs) generate boring, lab-report style papers and thus hamper publication. We test this claim by comparing the publication rates of experimental NBER working papers with and without PAPs. We find that articles with PAPs are slightly less likely to be published. However, conditional on being published, PAP-generated papers are significantly more likely to land in top-five journals. Also, PAP-based journal articles generate more citations. Our findings suggest that the alleged trade-off between career concerns and the scientific credibility that comes from registering and adhering to a PAP is less stark than is sometimes alleged. – Reproduced AEA Papers and Proceedings PUBLICATIONS AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 389530 IIPA IIPA 2021-01-29 110, May, 2020: p.70-74 AR123952 2021-01-29 AR